Eskrima Kombat

The second of cartoonist Ralph Cleaver’s jiujitsu illustrations for The Sketch offers a martial arts-themed update to Editha’s Burglar, a popular late-Victorian children’s novel in which the sentimental virtues of frail, bookish young Editha set a burglar upon the path to moral redemption. Cleaver’s suggestion of a swift seoi-nage shoulder throw would have yielded a much … Continue reading ““Ju-Jitsu For The Police: Its Possibilities” #2 (1905)”